roscone
@roscone.com
That's me, the Massachusetts web dev who loves movies, games, F1, Boston sports, leftie politics...and more!
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This sound bite plays in my head at least once weekly
December 22, 2025 at 1:14 AM
This sound bite plays in my head at least once weekly
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Being even baseline literate in the 2020s is like never working out but slowly becoming the strongest person on earth as everyone around you eats shredded newspaper and chugs poison
December 21, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Being even baseline literate in the 2020s is like never working out but slowly becoming the strongest person on earth as everyone around you eats shredded newspaper and chugs poison
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I have again been asked if AI was used to make my game.
For transparency, my minions used generative AI to make all the parts of the game that didn't benefit from a human touch, were too boring to make or not important enough to craft by hand. In other words, we didn't use any generative AI.
For transparency, my minions used generative AI to make all the parts of the game that didn't benefit from a human touch, were too boring to make or not important enough to craft by hand. In other words, we didn't use any generative AI.
December 21, 2025 at 9:10 PM
I have again been asked if AI was used to make my game.
For transparency, my minions used generative AI to make all the parts of the game that didn't benefit from a human touch, were too boring to make or not important enough to craft by hand. In other words, we didn't use any generative AI.
For transparency, my minions used generative AI to make all the parts of the game that didn't benefit from a human touch, were too boring to make or not important enough to craft by hand. In other words, we didn't use any generative AI.
Ah, censorship
December 21, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Ah, censorship
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please let “bugs bunnying” become the slang for manipulating an LLM into ignoring its guardrails, i have never seen a more succinct and evocative term for it
Highly amused by the stories of companies using agentic AI chatbots to run their internal company stores, only for their employees to immediately Bugs Bunny the chatbot into giving them free stuff www.aiweirdness.com/when-a-chatb...
When a chatbot runs your store
You may have heard of "agentic AI", which is basically the idea that you can hook up a large language model to controls that do real things. The controls might run internet searches, run commands to o...
www.aiweirdness.com
December 21, 2025 at 4:20 PM
please let “bugs bunnying” become the slang for manipulating an LLM into ignoring its guardrails, i have never seen a more succinct and evocative term for it
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James Talarico: The Bible doesn't mention abortion or gay marriage, but it goes on and on about forgiving debt, liberating the poor, and healing the sick. The closest thing we have to the kingdom of heaven is a multiracial, multicultural democracy where power is truly shared among all people
December 21, 2025 at 9:08 PM
James Talarico: The Bible doesn't mention abortion or gay marriage, but it goes on and on about forgiving debt, liberating the poor, and healing the sick. The closest thing we have to the kingdom of heaven is a multiracial, multicultural democracy where power is truly shared among all people
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the vice president is a klansman
JD Vance: "In the United States of America you don't have to apologize for being white anymore"
December 21, 2025 at 8:22 PM
the vice president is a klansman
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muppet christmas carol (happy holidays!)
December 21, 2025 at 7:56 PM
muppet christmas carol (happy holidays!)
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Handwaving away your party’s embrace of antisemitic conspiracy theories by saying “at least we’re not controlled by George Soros” is the most ridiculously quiet-part-loud thing I’ve ever seen.
JD Vance: "Wouldn't you rather lead a movement of freethinkers who sometimes disagree than a bunch of drones who take their orders from George Soros?"
December 21, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Handwaving away your party’s embrace of antisemitic conspiracy theories by saying “at least we’re not controlled by George Soros” is the most ridiculously quiet-part-loud thing I’ve ever seen.
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2026 resolution: Get Derfed
December 21, 2025 at 7:44 PM
2026 resolution: Get Derfed
Man, facing a real boxer turned him into Jigglypuff
December 21, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Man, facing a real boxer turned him into Jigglypuff
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No, SARS-CoV-2 is not reducing our intelligence
Why this myth refuses to die
The idea that SARS-CoV-2 infections, or worse, reinfections, are collectively reducing human intelligence does not hold.
open.substack.com/pu...
Why this myth refuses to die
The idea that SARS-CoV-2 infections, or worse, reinfections, are collectively reducing human intelligence does not hold.
open.substack.com/pu...
November 22, 2025 at 3:55 PM
No, SARS-CoV-2 is not reducing our intelligence
Why this myth refuses to die
The idea that SARS-CoV-2 infections, or worse, reinfections, are collectively reducing human intelligence does not hold.
open.substack.com/pu...
Why this myth refuses to die
The idea that SARS-CoV-2 infections, or worse, reinfections, are collectively reducing human intelligence does not hold.
open.substack.com/pu...
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WELKER: Why was this photo of a desk with a drawer open containing photos of Trump taken down?
BLANCHE: You can see in that photo there are photos of women. We learned there were concerns about them.
W: Are you saying those women are victims of Epstein?
B: No, that's not what I'm saying.
BLANCHE: You can see in that photo there are photos of women. We learned there were concerns about them.
W: Are you saying those women are victims of Epstein?
B: No, that's not what I'm saying.
December 21, 2025 at 2:51 PM
WELKER: Why was this photo of a desk with a drawer open containing photos of Trump taken down?
BLANCHE: You can see in that photo there are photos of women. We learned there were concerns about them.
W: Are you saying those women are victims of Epstein?
B: No, that's not what I'm saying.
BLANCHE: You can see in that photo there are photos of women. We learned there were concerns about them.
W: Are you saying those women are victims of Epstein?
B: No, that's not what I'm saying.
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Since we're all dunking on Yglesias, our only interaction was the time he criticized my attention to detail while failing to google the premise of every show I've ever done.
December 21, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Since we're all dunking on Yglesias, our only interaction was the time he criticized my attention to detail while failing to google the premise of every show I've ever done.
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Transphobic Christians are missing something
December 21, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Transphobic Christians are missing something
I can join the horse in this pledge
I will never vote for Bari Weiss.
December 21, 2025 at 2:44 PM
I can join the horse in this pledge
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It's an older relic from the last Trump era but it has I believe found its time.
December 21, 2025 at 4:55 AM
It's an older relic from the last Trump era but it has I believe found its time.
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I'm a geology consultant and I often talk with clients about when AI works (and doesn't) and this more or less summarizes what I say. With large, well-structured data that humans struggle to analyze quickly or at all: great. Where it's likely just plagiarizing or hallucinating: negative value.
December 20, 2025 at 10:04 PM
I'm a geology consultant and I often talk with clients about when AI works (and doesn't) and this more or less summarizes what I say. With large, well-structured data that humans struggle to analyze quickly or at all: great. Where it's likely just plagiarizing or hallucinating: negative value.
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We’ve created the self-regarding allegedly erudite child-molesting monsters from Vladimir Nabokov’s novel “Don’t Create The Self-Regarding Allegedly Erudite Child-Molesting Monster”
Not going to repost the images, but the first few feature the first paragraph of Lolita written in ink on the skin of a woman (or girl, impossible to tell)
See the newly released photos here: www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/cl62l...
December 18, 2025 at 5:42 PM
We’ve created the self-regarding allegedly erudite child-molesting monsters from Vladimir Nabokov’s novel “Don’t Create The Self-Regarding Allegedly Erudite Child-Molesting Monster”
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The FBI put a thousand agents (their own words) on trying to hide all the links between Trump and Epstein. They failed. When people found some additional photos of Trump in the release, the DOJ promptly DELETED THEM FROM THE DOCUMENT RELEASE.
www.npr.org/2025/12/20/n...
www.npr.org/2025/12/20/n...
Available to download Friday, some Epstein files no longer there Saturday afternoon
An NPR analysis of the Epstein files shows some documents, originally available on Friday, are no longer on the Department of Justice's "Epstein Library" website as the DOJ releases more files.
www.npr.org
December 20, 2025 at 8:30 PM
The FBI put a thousand agents (their own words) on trying to hide all the links between Trump and Epstein. They failed. When people found some additional photos of Trump in the release, the DOJ promptly DELETED THEM FROM THE DOCUMENT RELEASE.
www.npr.org/2025/12/20/n...
www.npr.org/2025/12/20/n...
Incredible thread about energy and how Matthew Yglesias is flat wrong
This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...
Opinion | Obama Supported It. The Left in Canada and Norway Does. Why Don’t Democrats?
www.nytimes.com
December 20, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Incredible thread about energy and how Matthew Yglesias is flat wrong
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WERE THE REAL PICTURES NOT GOOD ENOUGH?!
December 20, 2025 at 2:30 PM
WERE THE REAL PICTURES NOT GOOD ENOUGH?!
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Ninja turtles rule actually 💚
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles just took a strong stance against AI slop
The new theatrical short 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Chrome Alone 2 – Lost in New Jersey' has an anti-AI message.
www.polygon.com
December 20, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Ninja turtles rule actually 💚